(Closed) RAW Video Only

Ok, so we decided that we want a video of our wedding day, but we just can’t justify spending SO much money on it – they are ridiculously expensive. However, we’ve found a professional (and yes, we have watched A LOT of his videos) that we really like. He said that he would give us just the raw video for $450 for 8 hours.

Has anyone opted for raw video of your big day? And if so did you edit it yourself after? (We were thinking of doing it together as a fun post wedding project and sending them to the parents/grandparents)

my videographer gave me all the raw footage, an edited long movie (2.5 hours) and an edited short movie (20 minutes). I was only going to hire him to give us the raw footage and get my father in law to edit it but a) there was no guarantee of quality b) there was no guarantee of when i’d get it.

How much woukd tgat videographer charge to edit? If you’re on a really strict budget, you coukd always just get the raw furst, then pay for someone to edit later on…

We got a raw video, but it was a long time ago, when home editing was unavailable. We just watch it how it is. But it’s only about 1 and a bit hours, not 8! It would depend how good you are at editing videos. (Otherwise, perhaps a teenager in the family could do it?) I guess worst case you could just make it the ceremony + the speeches for about a 1 hour video. That’s pretty well what our (very enjoyable) video is: the ceremony, the speeches, and a few other little bits.

2. I do have a program for it – a movie maker program that I used before.

The problem isn’t really a tight budget (we are actually coming in over $2,000 under budget – WHOO!!), but neither of us can justify spending that much money on the video (would cost $1700). We were so turned off by that idea that we orginally passed up the idea of a videographer all together. Then as we were talking more about it, we decided we would want some type of video to be able to watch again.

I guess we could always get the raw and give the editing a try. We are actually looking forward to getting to do it ourselves. I love a chance to be creative and my Fiance loves another way to do things differently from everyone else (same reason we designed all of our wedding stationary and website, etc.)

The worse that will happen is that it turns out complete aweful and then, if we think its worth the money, we can take it to someone to have edited.

I know that I just added a lot, but that’s basically the summary of the converstions we’ve had during the past few days.

@Sweet_Tea: We were actually thinking of setting up a stationary one ALONG with the professional video we would get, giving us a lot of video to work with. That way we don’t have to ask (or trust) anyone to man the videocamera on the big day.

@paula1248: I like the idea of the video with all of the speeches. I guess that’s why I’m super excited about doing it ourselves – because we can make it whatever we want. I also just think a lot of the videos I’ve seen are cheesy – just a personal preference. And as I said I do have the basics of video editing down. We had to record ourselves at our internship and then create a montage type video to be used alongside our resume. So I can do the basic clip and move sections, taking our others, transitioning between sections, adding music. etc.

@subola: No that sounds very sensible. I almost didn’t hire avideographer because Ithought pictures would be enough but thank goodness i changed my mind. Not having video would have been my biggest regret.

You’ve got your bases covered. You can always try and if it doesn’t turn out the way you want, hire an editor.

@babecake: Thanks! I think we’re going for it. I just need to ask the videographer a few more questions – i.e. what formal would we get all of the raw photoage in. Also, since he seemed pretty flexible we were going to see how much it would cost to throw in another hour. 🙂